[Ubuntu] Geotools and new packages on UbuntuGIS

[Alex Mandel]

On 07/24/2013 07:28 AM, Jerome Villeneuve Larouche wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've started looking at adding Geotools to UbuntuGIS and I'm a bit lost
> right now. From what I understand and tried, every Maven dependency
> Geotools has must be available as a Debian Package, and well many of
> them seems to be missing. Some of them can't even be packaged, I think,
> because of their license, like JAI. If anyone has any experience
> packaging Java I would appreciate any tips you have :).
> 
> I'm still looking for new software to package and add on UbuntuGIS, so
> if you feel something is missing, this is the time.

I thought JAI was optional, used when present in many apps implementing
this stack.

Brian suggested osmosis as a good tool (there is a Debian osm group) to
consider.

Thanks,
Alex